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The unnecessary interventions are done by licensed doctors? Why?
You don't know if it's a false positive or not until you do further interventions. Realizing it's unnecessary is only evident in hindsight. E.g. CT scan shows an incidental, tiny lung nodule. You do a biopsy. Unfortunately, during the process of getting a biopsy, you develop a pneumothorax (an uncommon but well-known complication of a lung biopsy) and need a chest tube, hospitalization, etc. You get discharged and yo…
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I'm not even diabetic but they always pre-check your blood during blood / plasma donating. I would say it doesn't even register as a pinprick and feels more like the percussive slap of a tiny elastic band.
Ha, I would say quite the opposite, that the finger prick is my least favourite part of giving blood— it's ironic that taking a few drops could be that much worse than the big honking needle which draws an entire pint, but I guess fingertips just have a lot of nerve endings.
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The other insane thing is studies have shown that type 2 diabetes can be reversed by fasting. Fasting is problematic to the medical industry because it is zero cost. "Some studies found that patients were able to reverse their need for insulin therapy during therapeutic intermittent fasting protocols with supervision by their physician." https://clindiabetesendo.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/...
to be clear this isn't reversing T2 diabetes. Rather, it allows you to manage it. But the physical damage causing T2 diabetes generally remains
I'm T1D (insulin-dependent). I used a Dexcom for a couple years a while ago, back around the G3 through G5 era or so. I ended up stopping using it because my diabetes is very well managed, and I found it didn't make a huge difference to my management. With my insurance, each new sensor every week cost about $50, and would fail in various annoying ways: sometimes it would just stop working in the middle of the week, o…
I'm really intrigued by your statement that your diabetes is well managed, if I wake up in the wrong side of the bed, my insulin resistance change! Wondering how you can maintain that, do you have a very rigid routine and meal plan? I'm using Libre2 as part of my prescription and it has been working wonders by alerting early on before it is too low or too high to have enough time for a correction dose, or a small bit…
I do miss having the moment-to-moment trajectory information. Knowing whether I'm still going up 90 minutes after a meal was valuable. But I find I'm able to feel when I'm above 200 mg/dL, so can just correct by feel most of the time.
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Do you mean that they need to be cold when they are consumed, or is it the process of freezing itself that does something, even if it's later reheated?
The process of cooling down converts starches in rice, pasta, potatoes etc... to a more resistant forms that your body cannot process easily.
It also has informed family diet change, in the direction of keto practices, that has compressed the baseline to high delta for our son.
It's a relief to know that an OTC product exists as a backstop to our prescription CGMs.
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It's also rare for a doctor to tell a person they are too fat and to lose weight. The assumption (and most cost effective solution) is that patients just want a prescription for something and be sent on their way. US healthcare is crisis focused, not health focused.
> It's also rare for a doctor to tell a person they are too fat and to lose weight. Genuinely curious... have you ever been an obese person? Every fat person I've known have told me they're constantly shamed about being fat in medical settings, some to the point where they actively avoid going to a doctor anymore because they've given up on anything beyond being told they're fat.
I don't want to confuse my experience with actual data. Also, I don't think it's shaming if it's a health issue and obesity should be recognized as such.